'Complex Racks: Ableton FX & Mastering Racks' has been designed to provide useful tools and inspiration for use in Ableton Live 9. Complex chains and processes using Liveâs in-built units have been meticulously crafted and then utilised the eight macros within the racks to create simple hands on control.

Get access to essential tools for creation and mixing in a simplified way. The mastering racks have been designed to help at the final stage of creating and mixing a track.

The DnB mastering rack is aimed at a heavily processed, upfront sound whilst the House mastering rack is aimed at pumping 4x4 beats with controlled low end and thumping kicks. However, both racks provide the essential tools needed to add the final polish to any electronic music genre.

By using the eight macros to hide the back end design, the creators of this product haven't just created 'one for all' mastering presets but instead simplified many complex controlled processes such as sculpted EQ, parallel compression, limiting and more, into a user interface that you can quickly adjust on the fly to create your final master.

The advice is to experiment, turn knobs and see what happens (or for more advanced users, you can dive into the FX chains and dial in your ideal settings).

The FX and processing racks provide fun and useful tools to add to your music creation toolbox. Improve your overall drum mix or sculpt individual components. Add a professional sheen to your vocals or try pushing into experimental territory for unexpected results. Tighten your bass sound or crush and saturate the low end until it thunders. Go wild with the vinyliser and introduce some analogue style grit, dirt or warmth.

The FX processing rack features reverb, frequency delay, pitch control, resynthesis signal processing, a mod filter and an auto chopper. Throw it over any audio or MIDI track for instant FX that can provide inspiration and quick access to essential processing.

Loopmasters and Neuro Bass pioneer Dan Larsson are back with Extreme Neuro Processing Racks - 12 Monster Effects Racks for Ableton Live - which will turn any sound into an insanely hi-octane onslaught! If you are looking for instant ferocity in your productions, this is where it’s at.

Prepare for the ultimate assault of Dark and Twisted Synth sounds inspired by artists like Noisia, Black Sun Empire, Bless, State Of Mind, Rido, N-Phect and Prolix.

Simply load one rack into your track, and play any sound though it. Think of this original sound as being in the eye of the storm. Seconds later you will hear it mutate and contort into a formidable tyrant, intent on an imminent sonic apocalypse.

These racks are designed to be used in isolation from your track - sampled then loaded into your main project. This is the most practical approach, as you will find the Extreme Signal Processing consumes more CPU than a normal plugin.

These racks can be fed all types of sounds, and you’ll find that experimentation pays off. Try Drum Hits, Bass Sounds, Vocals, Chord Stabs or Pads – there is nothing that will escape the fury! Do not underestimate the power of these racks – due to the internal processing and feedback structure, they do occasionally make sounds of their own accord.

Want to take your mixes to the next level? Fire up Magic Racks: Mix Essentials - five powerful Ableton Racks designed for intuitive and precision sculpting of a track’s key elements.

Each rack has been expertly built to cater to the demands of modern dance music producers - rigorously tried, tested and tweaked to offer incisive mixing options with the simplest of controls for maximum dancefloor impact.

Built exclusively from Ableton’s native tools and FX, each macro-controllable rack offers deep-level and highly-targeted enhancement of the key mix components in any dance track, from kick drum to hi-hats, synths to bass.

You won't find choice overload here; just eight macros per Rack with finely honed controls for the most important aspects of each sound. From common workflow tools to complex signal chains containing saturation, precisely honed EQ, parallel compression and limiting, each one is controlled via a single macro knob to make powerful sound-shaping simple and intuitive.

But customisation is also key, and all Racks are fully-editable - open them up, tweak parameters, change routings, swap in and out tools - so they fit your workflow seamlessly.

Compiled by Live power-user and long-time SM sound designer Hedflux, Magic Racks: Mix Essentials is the ultimate pairing of workflow optimiser and creative mix tool, allowing you to make intuitive production tweaks to the pivotal components of a track both in the studio and as part of Live sets.

What's Inside

The Racks:

1. Kick Tweaker

Tighten, deepen and fine-tune any kick drum. No transient is left un-tweaked in this comprehensive kick drum tool.

5Pin Media picks up with the second installment of their DAWcentrix Series with Ableton Racks - Mix Master Process. If electronic music in any shape or form is your bag and you use Ableton Live you should listen and read on.

Mix Master Process as the title implies covers the Mixing, Mastering and Processing stages of music composition using Live's Audio Effects Racks. Well thought out Macros with carefully tuned ranges give you precise control over key aspects of your individual sounds, mix elements, final mix and master.

In the Mixing and Mastering department you will find 17 Racks that cover every aspect from Mid/Side EQ and Compression to Multiband Limiting designed to get your masters sounding wide and loud without unwanted distortion. Each and every rack is accompanied by a PDF user guide detailing the function of the Macros.

In the Process department you will find 17 racks for shaping your individual sounds such as Kicks, Claps, Snares, HiHats and Percussion as well as for processing Loops of all kinds. The Transient Vitalizer for example boosts and shapes transients for more clarity and punch. Use the Vinyl Love Rack for a warmer less sterile sub mix or final mix. Once again each and every rack is accompanied by a PDF user guide detailing the function of the Macros.

As an extra bonus we have included several live projects to provide examples of the Racks in action with the highlight being the demo track where we have created a full mix with all the sounds and elements accessable for you to inspect and tweak followed by a mastering session of the same track as heard in the main demo (big thank's to Adam Shaw for creating the track). Our final challenge was to take the pre-master of our recent release "Cristoph House and Techno Producer" and see how well we could master it using the included racks compared with the official pro master. Listen to our MixMasterProcess version above and compare it to the official pro master here

We are pleased to present our "Mixing and Mastering Tools” – free Ableton Live racks that simplify common tasks such as equalization, low-end control, stereo imaging, etc. You may find some of them in our Ableton templates. Actually we were planning to sell them, but decided to offer them for free because we think you’re awesome!

Using only Ableton’s built in plugins and effects we’ve designed a set of useful racks for mixing and mastering purposes. Each rack comes with useful macro controls for key parameters, but you can always dig deeper and open them up to customize everything to fit your needs perfectly.

In this pack you will find 8 expertly crafted free Ableton Live racks that will save your time and bring your tracks to the next level!

Maximizer – compressor and limiter designed specifically for EDM mastering.

Take your sound processing, track mix-downs and live set performances to the next level with our advanced mixing and creative FX racks. Processing Racks contains five powerful racks designed to give you complex sonic manipulation with the simplest of macro controls.

As always, each rack has been painstakingly sculpted to meet the demands of modern electronic music producers and performers. Vigorously tried and tested both in the studio and in the club, these five racks will help give your music a truly unique sonic stamp.

Built solely using Ableton’s native tools, each rack utilises complex processing chains to offer highly flexible, powerful and dance-tailored FX manipulation and mix processing that will become and indispensable part of your music production arsenal.

All five racks have eight simple macro knobs to control custom reverbs, delays, beat-repeats, gates, distortions, filters and multi-band compressors to offer unrivalled production know-how with the minimum of fuss.

For advanced users there’s endless possibilities as all racks are totally customisable - open them up, tweak parameters, change routings, swap in and out tools - so they fit your workflow seamlessly.

Compiled by Live expert and Magic Racks developer Hedflux, this latest edition is an essential tool for in-the-box producers seeking advanced processing tools.

What's Inside

Spatializer

The ultimate reverb rack.

A one-stop shop for creating depth, space and texture. Ghostly textures, kaleidoscopic ambience and submerged washes are an effortless breeze with the Spatializer. Macros for Hyper, Spacial and Pressure give controllable distance and width with spectral processing and clever delay chains. Then slot sounds into your mix with the wet/dry mix macro.

Percolator

Slice, dice and re-tune and de-tune pitched percussion on the fly.

Random pitched techno bleeps and bloops, re-pitched grooves and randomised rhythms are all possible through a combination of beat-repeat processing, delay devices and pitch-specific controls. Ideal for adding dynamism and detail to tired percussion and top loops.

Filter your beats through a vintage, distorted or lo-fi distortion unit modelled on classic analogue processing. The Philtrator really comes to life in a sequencing setting - macros like the Crunch, Step and Freak filters can be tweaked on-the-fly to create dynamic transitions and classic low-pass filter rises. Take things to the next level with the pitch-specific Comb and Ambient filters for even more analogue-style noise, grit and authenticity.

The Philtrator’s meaner, rougher younger brother is all about spectral transformation and resonant peak processing which create distorted and degraded harmonics. Simulate the dynamic behaviour of a metal tube and pipe works or incrementally lower the sample-rate and bit-depth with the Ruffness macro. Take things further with a time-based loop sweep and gate delay to create evolving rhythmic textures.

The Mavrik: Ultimate EDM Drums Vol 1' is the hottest drum pack on the market! Tired of fumbling through thousands of one-shot sample packs only to pull a few good ones out? Well fear not because every single hit in this pack is 100% usable and mix ready!

This Producer Pack includes four genres of drum samples, with Dance, Dubstep, Trap and Live, each broken down into sub categories.

There are 93 Kicks, 125 Snares, 43 Hats, 27 Cymbals and Swells, and seven 808's. There are also 26 live drum fills and five live drum grooves, which have all been pre-quantized.

Also included are pre-made Ableton Drum Racks. You will find a drum rack for each genre, preloaded with the corresponding one-shot samples.

Formats:

Ableton Live

WAV

Please Note: To use the Ableton Drum Racks requires Ableton 8.1 or higher.

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